Construction industry is one of the major drivers of the economic sustainability of China’s provinces. An investigation of the status of the construction industry in China is needed to find out its maturity and health. The results of this investigation may help China define the impact factors required in order to promote the growth level of its construction industry. This research assesses the ...

the main objective of the present survey is to conduct a comparative analysis of the challenges of the performance evaluation system in two private and public sectors and their impact on effectiveness of human resources management practices. this survey was conducted using the field-descriptive method. the historical study method was used to collect theoretical subjects and the field study meth...

Aluminium is the world’s second most-used metal after steel and the aluminium production industry is the largest, in volume of metal produced, in non-ferrous metal industry. In this study, results of the material flows (country and global scales) related to the production and use of aluminium and energy consumption in 1980 to 2012 were separately analysed. Also, overview of the current status o...

Merger intensity spikes in times of high market valuations (i.e., when average M/B ratios are at their highest). This is especially true for stock-based mergers, supporting recent theories by Rhodes-Kropf and Viswanathan (2002) and Shleifer and Vishny (2003). To explore whether this is the result of correlated valuation errors or behavioral mispricing we decompose M/B into three components: fir...

An overview of the Czech national R&D project HiLASE (High average power pulsed laser) is presented. The project focuses on the development of advanced high repetition rate, diode pumped solid state laser (DPSSL) systems with energies in the range from mJ to 100 J and repetition rates in the range from 10 Hz to 100 kHz. Some applications of these lasers in research and hi-tech industry are also...

the main objective of the present survey is to conduct a comparative analysis of the challenges of the performance evaluation system in two private and public sectors and their impact on effectiveness of human resources management practices. this survey was conducted using the field-descriptive method. the historical study method was used to collect theoretical subjects and the field study meth...

Introduction This report from the Center for Competitive Analysis (CCA) of the University of Missouri provides basic background information about the Building Cleaning and Maintenance Services (BMS) industry. This introductory section provides an overview of the industry. The BMS industry is classified under SIC code 7349. Firms in the industry offer a wide variety of services, typically includ...

Following a 13-year period when all employers in Washington paid the same unemployment insurance (UI) tax rate, Washington was forced to adopt an experience-rated tax system in 1985. We use this ‘‘natural experiment’’ to explore both tax incidence and the effects of experience rating. We find that industry average tax rates are largely passed on to workers through lower earnings. However, our e...